Fairphone vs Samsung
Based on our analysis, Fairphone is the more privacy-respecting choice overall.
BACK →| Category | Fairphone | Samsung |
|---|---|---|
| Overall | B- · 68/100 | D · 39/100 |
| What they collect | Mixed (65) | Concern (25) |
| Who they share it with | Mixed (72) | Concern (32) |
| What you can do | Mixed (63) | Mixed (50) |
| What they promise | Mixed (68) | Mixed (45) |
Fairphone doesn't sell your data and has a genuinely ethical mission, but it runs retargeting ads, sends your full IP address to Bloomreach for segmentation, keeps contract data for a minimum of seven years, defaults to anonymisation rather than deletion when you ask for your data to be removed, and forum posts older than 60 days can never be fully deleted.
View full analysis →Samsung's data appetite is unusually broad for a hardware maker: voice recordings stored on servers with potential third-party retention, keyboard input logging via Predictive Text synced across devices, and persistent hardware identifiers that survive ad-ID resets. The company explicitly acknowledges that sharing with business partners may constitute a data sale under US law (CCPA). Full GDPR-grade rights are reserved for EEA/UK/Swiss residents; everyone else gets basic access and deletion with no response-time commitments. Retention timelines are vague and there are no named security certifications or breach notification windows.
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